Suggested contacts is feature available only in Outlook 2010. OUtlook 2010 creates contacts for addresses one sends mail to when the address is not added to any of the mailbox address books. This folder is not a well-known folder, but a user-created folder of IPF.Contacts type.
Thus Microsoft solved the problem of "polluting" well-known Contacts folder with the e-mail addresses users may never need any more by creating a contact for every e-mail address one replies to.
Suggested Contacts folder is no more used as a feature in any later versions of Outlook (2013 or 2016). However, if the user upgrades Outlook to a version later than 2010 the folder is preserved.
Migration Agent for Exchange (MAgE) copies existing Suggested Contacts folder "as is", i.e., it creates Suggested Contacts folder in the target mailbox and copies all contacts from the source mailbox Suggested Contacts folder.
No new contacts will be added to the target mailbox Suggested Contact folder automatically any more. However, user may still use the contacts from this folder to send of forward mails to.
Whereas in the source mailbox Suggested Contacst folder icon looks as "shared", in the target mailbox it will have a reagular contacts folder icon.
If a working Suggested Contacts folder existed in the target mailbox before synchronization, it will keep working as designed, i.e., new contacts will be automatically added to it even after synchronization.
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